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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unleaded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unleaded fuel (=that does not contain lead)
▪ Modern cars run on unleaded fuel.
unleaded petrol (=petrol that does not contain lead)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fuel
▪ Can you confirm that Land Rover V8 will accept unleaded fuel? 4.
▪ As you'd expect, being a Saab, it runs on unleaded fuel and has a 3 way catalytic converter.
▪ She was pleased to see that the 460 uses unleaded fuel, helping her bid to escape the city smoke.
▪ While its petrol-engined equivalent must have unleaded fuel, the diesel catalyser will only become effective when sulphur levels drop.
▪ By 2000 the great majority of cars will run on unleaded fuel.
▪ How will unleaded fuel affect the performance of my car?
▪ All petrol engines run on 91 octane unleaded fuel and are equipped with modern fuel injection and three-way exhaust catalysts.
▪ New vehicles will be required to comply with set standards from 1995, while unleaded fuel will become available in 2000.
petrol
▪ Some stoves are now designed to run on unleaded petrol.
▪ The budget provided the financial incentive, but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.
▪ Was unleaded petrol sold in Oxford in 1983?
▪ Many new models of cars can already run on unleaded petrol without any adjustment.
▪ All models run on unleaded petrol.
▪ A car converted to unleaded petrol can also run on leaded with no risk of damaging the engine.
▪ From October 1990 all new cars manufactured will have to be able to run on unleaded petrol.
▪ What will it cost to adjust my car to unleaded petrol?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arco spokesman Scott Loll said 55 customers' cars broke down after pumping the regular, unleaded gasoline.
▪ But you couldn't feel smug about filling up your tank with unleaded while all that was going on.
▪ Can you confirm that Land Rover V8 will accept unleaded fuel? 4.
▪ However, in more rural counties, unleaded regular can still be found for $ 1. 19 a gallon.
▪ If I use unleaded will my engine be less powerful?
▪ Jet, which already sells cut-price petrol, will knock 12p off a gallon of unleaded, reducing it to £199.6p.
▪ Like any big-block V-8 fueled by gasoline, this engine chugged regular unleaded.
▪ Most outdid Torreson's $ 1.70.9 per gallon of unleaded gasoline by a cent at $ 1.69.9.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unleaded

1610s, "having no lead," from un- (1) "not" + leaded (see lead (v.2)). In reference to gasoline, from 1965. In reference to printing, from 1902.

Wiktionary
unleaded

  1. 1 Without lead. 2 (context US standard of identity of gasoline English) Containing no more than 0.05 grams of lead per gallon. v

  2. (past of unlead English)

WordNet
unleaded

  1. adj. not treated with lead; "unleaded gasoline" [syn: leadless] [ant: leaded]

  2. not having leads between the lines

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Usage examples of "unleaded".

If the environment should happen to cross your mind while you are trying to decide between leaded, unleaded, diesel, or gasohol, severe legal penalties would ensue.

They stopped at the Quic Pic for a badly needed tank of unleaded and proceeded into Cleveland, dropping well below the speed limit in the busy afternoon traffic.

Molotov cocktail, filled with unleaded from Hell, struck one of the rafts and exploded into flame.

If they sold lightning bolts, maybe he could buy premium unleaded, too.

The freeway at rush hour was an old friend newly revisited, harbinger of normalcy, a great rough pet sucking in the sharp odor of unleaded gas and exhaling huge gouts of smog.

I suppose now youll tell me it runs on unleaded and does nought to sixty in two seconds?

One thing about horror, it gives you a supreme unleaded adrenaline rush.

Oil Spill Way and Unleaded Lane, Bill and his best friend, Dwight Slade, snickered.

Seeing none, he pulled in and parked next to an unleaded self-service pump.

Melt-O-Mobile runs on regular unleaded gas, and best of all, you never have to park it.

While the clerk was busy waiting on a man who was paying for a tankful of unleaded and a pouch of Red Man, I strolled up an aisle and stuffed the pockets of the Moonsuit with as many brightly colored bags and rectangles as they could hold.

The substance was approximately 60 percent 89-octane, unleaded gasoline, thirty percent diesel fuel, and ten percent dish deter­gent, determined by subsequent photospectrometric analysis to be Dawn brand.